Posted on 08/07/2002 10:31:43 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
Susan Sarandon, one of the original stars of the cult 1975 SF movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, told SCI FI Wire that she wants nothing to do with a proposed remakenot even a cameo. "I'm boycotting the Rocky Horror Picture Show organization," she said in an interview. "They should have shared some of the wealth from Rocky Horror. For me, it's the principle of the thing. There are other people involved with that movie who need some money, and they should spread it out a little bit. It's been a golden egg for the longest time, and it's the least they could do."
The last straw for Sarandon was when the producers asked her to participate in the DVD special edition. "I'll let you in on a secret," she said. "When they did the DVD, and they asked me to do the voice-over [commentary], I said, 'How about giving people some money? You could throw a little money our way.' And they wouldn't, and I didn't, so they took an interview from VH1 that I had done for their anniversary show. I've done a lot of press for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, because I love the movie and I love the people, but they took that and put it on the DVD [instead]."
The Fox network will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rocky Horror with The Rocky Horror Birthday Show, a two-hour movie to be produced by Fox TV Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Birthday will air in February 2003, 30 years after Richard O'Brien first penned Rocky Horror as a play that ran in London, the trade paper reported.
The rest of it was faggy show tunes.
Everybody who watched it should get paid restitution by the idiots, like Sarandon, who made it.
"Slut!"
Ok. So i've seen it a few dozen times. The movie, by itself, sucks. It's the audience that makes it much more than it otherwise would be.
Susan looked pretty good in Rocky Horror, but it's been all downhill since then.
Funny, FUNNY, FUNNY!!!!!
Saw it at home? There's the problem. The fun of Rocky Horror was to go see it with a crowd, in a theater, and "interact" with the movie. That is the fun part, not the movie itself. As a regular movie ... it stinks.
She should be paid in accordance with the deal she made, period.
As far as boycotting goes, she might as well...she's been boycotting good looks for a decade!
For some reason the film launched some career, and I'm still shaking my head over that, but not enough to arbitrarily give money away to people.
Now as for getting something to do a voice over commentary.. I suppose they could pay her scale.
jeez I lost count,
I did set a personal record for sneaking in 18 "Little Kings" in my army jacket.......
Ah. That explains why I saw "Rock & Roll High School" twice in one semester...
They used to do a Saturday nit double feature at the movie house near my school, "Reefer Madness" followed by "Up in Smoke".
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